New Glenn Completes Second Stage Hotfire | Blue Origin
Aug 29, 2024 · New Glenn’s second stage (GS2) successfully completed a risk reduction hotfire test today, a milestone on our road to first flight, scheduled for launch in November, from Launch Complex 36 in Cape Canaveral, FL. NG-1 will carry Blue …
New Glenn | Blue Origin
A reusable rocket purpose-built to deliver high volume and mass to orbit, New Glenn is a key to unlocking our long-term vision — a future where people and heavy industries are moved into space to preserve Earth, humanity’s blue origin.
New Glenn - Wikipedia
New Glenn is a heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by Blue Origin, named after NASA astronaut John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit Earth. [8] . New Glenn is a two-stage rocket with a diameter of 7 m (23 ft). Its first stage is powered by seven BE-4 engines that are also designed and manufactured by Blue Origin.
Blue Origin Just Installed New Glenn’s BE-4 Engines
Oct 24, 2024 · Early this morning Blue Origin shared the first images of a New Glenn booster with 7 BE-4 engines installed. This is the first time we’ve ever seen this and with it all being flight hardware, a launch very soon is expected.
For the first time, Blue Origin has ignited an orbital rocket stage
Sep 24, 2024 · This marked the first time that Blue Origin, a space company founded by Jeff Bezos more than two decades ago, has integrated and fired an orbital rocket stage. After the test, Blue Origin...
New Glenn second stage completes hot fire test
Sep 24, 2024 · After twenty days of preparation, the Blue Origin team filled New Glenn’s second stage with flight-worthy propellant for the first time and lit its two BE-3U engines, which hot fired for 15...
Blue Origin static fires its first piece of New Glen flight hardware
Sep 28, 2024 · GS2, the name of Glenn’s upper stage, is powered by two BE-3U engines, a variation to the same engines powering New Shepard‘s suborbital flights. Consuming liquid oxygen and hydrogen, the company claims these have one of the highest thrust-to-weight ratios ever flown for a hydrolox engine.
Blue Origin switches engines for New Glenn second stage
Mar 29, 2018 · Blue Origin is lining up New Glenn to compete with United Launch Alliance and SpaceX in launching U.S. military satellites by giving the rocket enough muscle to reach every orbit specified in...
Blue Origin New Glenn: Successful test run of the second heavy …
Sep 26, 2024 · Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' space company, Blue Origin, successfully conducted a hot-fire test on the second stage of the New Glenn heavy-lift rocket (GS2) on Monday.
Blue Origin Debuts New Glenn on Our Launch Pad
Blue Origin is certifying New Glenn with the U.S. Space Force for the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program to meet emerging national security objectives. Our New Glenn vehicle successfully rolled out and upended today for the first time on the pad at Launch Complex 36.
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